Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery / / Elaine Fantham.
Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1972 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: The Imagery of Terence
- Introduction. Metaphor and imagery in Terence
- 1. The main categories of metaphorical allusion
- 2. Individual usages
- 3. A comparison of imagery in Plautus and Terence
- Appendix I. The imagery of love in Terence and sermo amatorius
- Part II. Artistic Deviation And Development
- 4. Plautus and the imagery of fantasy
- 5. Beyond sermo familiaris: the imagery of rhetoric
- 6. Imagery in the literary dialogue: Cicero's de Oratore
- Appendix II. Criticial comments on the use of metaphor in de Oratore 3.155-68
- 7. Some conclusions
- Indexes